Needle-threader



(No Model.)

A. SGHERKENBAOH.

NEEDLE THREADER.

No. 394,308. Patented Dec; 11, 1888.

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AUGUST SCHERKENBACl-l, OF SHAKOPEE, MINNESOTA.

NEEDLE-THREADER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,303, dated December 11, 1888.

Application filed September 20, 1888. Serial No. 285,850. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUsT SOHERKEN- BACH, ol' Shakopee, in the county of Scott and State of )linnesota, have invented a new and Improved Needle-'lhreader, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved device for threading needles, which is very simple and durable in construction, and permits a rapid threading of the needle.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then point ed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure] is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the line .L' Jr of Fig. 2.

The improved needle-threader consists of a single spoon-shaped plate, A, provided in its bowl end B with an aperture, C, flanked at the bottom by the projections or lugs D D, placed opposite each other and in longitudinal line with the plate A.

The projections or lugs I) are adapted to fit into the eye E of the needle E, as is plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

shank of the needle F, so as to hold the latter in line with the spoon-shaped plate A.

The operation is as follows: hen the operator desires to thread a needle, he places it on the under side of the plate A, so that the projections or lugs D fit into the eye E of the needle F. The shank of the latter is placed between the edges of the V-shaped notch H,

and the needle is held on the plate A by the operator pressing with his forefinger against the under side of the needle, between the lugs D and the handle end G of the plate A, and by holding the plate A lirmly in position by pressingdown on the upper side of the plate A with the thumb. The end of the thread is now passed into the bowl B, in which it easily finds its way to the central aperture, (,located at the lowermost part of the bowl B and in the center of the same. The end of the thread passes through the aperture 0, and also through the eye E of the needle, which eye registers with the aperture C, as above described. The operator then pulls the thread through the aperture and eye E from the bottom and then removes the needle from the plate A, at the same time holding the end of the thread so that it is drawn through the aperture The needle is then threaded.

Thus it will be seen that the needle-threader is very simple and durable in construction, permitting a rapid threading of the needle, even with very deep eyes, as the end of the thread finds its own way through the aperture 0 and the eye E of the needle, as above described.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pateut- As a new article of manufacture, a needlethreader consisting of a spoon-shaped plate I provided in its bowl end with a central aper- On the handle end G of the plate A is formed a V-shaped notch, H, into which is placed the f ture flanked at the bottom by two projections fitting into the eye of the needle, and provided at its handle end with a notch forming a resting-place for the shank of the needle, substantially as shown and described.

AUGUST SCHERKENBACH.

Yitnesses:

JULIUS A. CoLLER, N. MEYER. 

